Client: Alder Hey Children’s Hospital

Alder Hey is the first paediatric hospital in Europe to be built in a park, developed and opened in 2015. We have a once-in-a-lifetime chance to capitalise on our natural environment and empower our local community to interact with nature to improve their health, well-being, quality of life and provide opportunities for lifelong learning. Through the development and use of an inclusive green space, Alder Hey aims to inspire healthcare providers across the world to change behaviours and offer new solutions for healthy cities.’

The aim of the commission was, to create an interactive trail in a public park for use by the general public, schools, patients, staff and visitors to Alder Hey Children’s hospital.

To design, provide the material for, create physical signage and implement a multi-sensory nature trail that will engage the local community as well as previously excluded and hard-to-reach groups in an under-used woodland area; including people with disabilities, mobility issues, visually impaired people and patients from Alder Hey Children’s Hospital.

To encourage excluded and hard-to-reach groups to engage with and enjoy the natural environment around them, to promote their health, well-being and lifelong learning.

(Book Exchange, Vitamin Information, Yoga Positions, Meditation Instruction Stools, Naughts and Crosses, Bird Feeders, Recorded Birdsong QR code links, Edibles Information, Foraging Planters, Rubbing Post, HIIT (high-intensity training point).

Corten Steel, Oak, Mixed Media